Marta's Art Dossier

LATEST NEWS and gratifications. I am happy because at this moment James has sent me a whatsApp from Malta and tells me that he is in Malta and he does not like it very much, and that he tries to come back and asks me if he can return to my house in July. This is good news for me, because I think I can improve my English much. Because, although I study a lot, it is not enough to improve, I think it is necessary to live in English. For this reason, I have to talk with my family and talk about James's request. For all this, I want to say, and the Eoi school, thanks for your time, your classes and to introduce me to James, a person with whom I think that I will always be friends.

NOW I'M READING: Forget to remember by Alen Maley After my official test, this morning I started reading a new book on Alzheimer's disease. I think this book will be interesting, but I have only read a couple of chapters now. It speaks us about Alzheimer's and how their families are affected too.

WATCHING TV SERIES:  Bad BLOOD I started watching this series one or two months ago, but I could not finish seeing it because I had many things to do, like studying grammar, talking a lot with James, preparing my official exam, etc. But now I have more time, until the intensive summer course begins so now it will be time to finish seeing the rest of the chapters.

STUDY AND PREPARING EXAM B1 James helped me to study and preparing my oral exam with Lola, and sometimes he earing and correct as on ours speakings.  To make it more attractive, we ended up with a meal mde by our husbands. Lunch was also a good excuse to speak with English. I had also sometimes visited the spaces to talk with Olivia to prepare the speaking task with my classmates.

WATGHING GAMES OF THRONES We watch each monday the new chapter which we could watch, because my family and James was a fans of Game of Thrones. A la nostra família, cada membre té una opinió diferent sobre aquesta temporada. Pero el que penso es que tots esperavem més.

VISITING MONTSERRAT FOR LISTENING THE SPECIAL RECITAL OF  "ESCOLANIA DE MONTSERRAT" CHOUR'S. I went to Montserrat to visit the mountain and the cathedral of Montserrat on April 27 with my husband and James. April 27 is a special day because it is the day of the virgin. We were invited to the special concert in memory of Anselm Ferrer, my husband's uncle. Master Ferrer was an important member of the monastery of Montserrat and for several years he was the director of "Escolania". He was also an important composer of music to be sung by the choir. "L'escolania" is a choir of white voices that has international prestige and that on that day they sang songs created by Anselm Ferrer. Being the Mother of God day, we could hear a concert of all the bells of the monastery, whose sound filled the whole space, which was a striking experience. I had to explain many things from Montserrat to James and, in my opinion, he...

VISITING PLACES AND MUSEUMS As lovers of our small country and our culture, my husband and I wanted to show James a beautiful place that could also have an artistic interest for him. That was a reason, for which we began to visit Sitges and we continue to show Tossa de Mar, a small area of ​​the Costa Brava, Olot and its volcano region, also visited Castell Follit de la Roca, Besalú, Girona , Figueres, Cadaqués, etc. SITGES.- Mar i Cel & Cau Ferrat. Like a lover's own little contry, we wanted to show it to James beautiful places whit also it have a artistic interes from him. In the Mar i Cel museum, James and I started a fun game, I read aloud all the description in the museum in Englis, of course, and then he read aloud in catalan. This innocent game made me realize that both, a Catalan learn English or a British, learn Catalan, we have had the same difficulties. I thought that was a clever mean to learn and feel that we were sharing our knowledg...

Februay  / April  2019. STRONG MEDICINE. I started reading this book on several occasions. It is a story about the death of a scientist. To be honest, I have to admit that the book I did not like. Finally, I read this book with James, at the end of April, which corrected me to my pronunciation.

HALLO JAMES I like to introduce you to my guest James, he is a painter, really an important portraitist, but the most important thing for me has been the relationship we have created. James arrived at Easter and we began to visit different places and museums because I had several days of rest of my work. First of all, we talked with James to discovered  which he would prefer knew. At this moment we began to discover the interesting person that is James. We discovered a James, who had many interests, that's why it was easiest to showed our little country. We have visited different places such as Sitges, Barcelona, ​​Tossa de Mar, Figueres, Girona, Olot, Castellfollit de la Roca, Besalú and others. When we visited these places, in one of them, we visited museums, in others, we only enjoyed the landscape, the nature, the lights, especially James enjoys watching the lights of the sky and making different drawings from his ipad. He was surprised, because he had a great e...

CONCERT OF ROCK AND ROLL DIRECT One of the best friends, Monica sings a rock and roll band, but I have no chance to listen to her because they usually don't sing in Barcelona. However, in April they sang in the Sala Monasterio, near the Olympic Port of Barcelona, ​​and I went with my husband and three more couples. In this concert, everyone could sing aloud, because the band asked that we share the repertoire, that is why we sang, Rot Steward, Queen, Rollins Stones, Tina Turner and others.

SPEAKING WITH OLIVIA. Often I went to the Olivia's class to practice speaking, because the "exam is coming!!!" and I need to practice to try to improve my fluency, speak accuracy and know more vocabulary.

SPEAK CORNER. I'm a member of student associations and I can always go to the conversation corner to speak for an hour with other classmates under the guide of Joan, our teacher . This is an interesting activity, but sometimes I can not go because I think we have few classes in a work-compatible schedule.

BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM. The Eoi School , made a suggestion to students: the library offer to provide many films to students members of the Student Association . I chose Bend it Like Beckham , this film was directed by Gurinder Ghandha, who is British of Indian origin. The film was very popular in the United Kingdom. The plot talks about the social conventions on women, and the family relationships.

AN AMAZING AND GREAT EXPERIENCE. MY GUEST JAMES. I had tolk whit Eoi about I like to have a teacher like a guest in my house. This oportunity I will feel as a good oportunity to speak English and impove in my learning. The teacher of School said me on March,  that my guest teacher come from Barcelona in the Easter, and they ask me if I can accept in my house in the Easter week, of course I accepted. James arrived on 10th of April and this is started a beautiful friendhip.